On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:28 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > > > I agree. However, this is at home and it makes many things > > > convenient (my parents no longer have to remember the router IP > > > addresses, they just show up as soon as you hop on the home > > > network). You still need > > > > Do you not have DHCP to handle this? > > DHCP does allocate IP addresses. However, the router interface has a > bandwidth monitor, and it's also useful when your connection goes > down (as Airtel's home plan does so very often for us). > > > How have you setup your home LAN DNS? Is there any other zone > > besides the default "localhost.localdomain"? > > All computers on the LAN are in the .lan zone (Avahi complained > greatly when I just used the .local zone) so I settled for this (and > I like it). I have attached my zone file if it helps.
The db.lan zone file looks OK, although I prefer to use a A record for the "ns" "mx" hosts rather than CNAME. I have not seen a CNAME record with a wild card hostname such as "*.pan CNAME pan" but if it works great. I would suggest you search through the avahi mailing lists and/or hang out there, I am sure the authors and guru level users hang out there and get more competent help there. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
